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Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by gk1 »

ahallock wrote: post #70
alberth wrote: post #33

I've never understood Netlify. They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs. Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests. See the YSlow report for their blog site below. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg It receives an "F" rating. Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?

Netlify is wonderful. I never thought to check if they dogfood their product, though. Sometimes, resources are allocated to new features and site redesign/restructuring work gets pushed to the back burner.

The cobbler's children have no shoes.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by gk1 »

tal_berzniz wrote: post #21

Awesome service so far. The Continuous Deployment flow is awesome with deploy previews, CDN, custom routing, Automatic SSL from Let's Encrypt. The SSL can be improved to be true automatic without a provisioning step (first hit issues a cert)

I mean... It takes just one click to get the SSL. That is already far easier than I've seen from any other service.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by michaelmior »

jbob2000 wrote: post #7
calcsam wrote: post #5

Static sites are becoming more and more popular -- you can host them on CDNs across the globe, they can be cached client-side, pre-loaded, work offline.... Especially important thinking about the billions of people in developing countries accessing the Internet over 2G connections. If the trend towards static sites continues, Netlify could be the next Heroku. Personally, I use Netlify to host my Gatsby blog; all I ne…

You can use heroku for static sites and it already is that easy (well, kinda... git push heroku master)

You definitely can, but it's not designed or optimized for static sites. And I think there's plenty you can do to improve performance when an app server isn't needed.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by michaelmior »

ledgerdev wrote: post #53
bobfunk wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The features not included in free are not typically things you can't do without for personal projects (ie, password protection, role based access control, role management for team members, etc...)

Password protection is a pretty basic need and need not cost $45/month. Of course the role/team based stuff for $45/month makes perfect sense because those are only applicable on larger projects.

I've never found a need for password protection on any of the small personal projects I've worked on. But I guess I could imagine some use cases where that would be nice to have.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by michaelmior »

jmuguy wrote: post #18

Just published my first application on Netlify yesterday. I looked at Surge.sh but their pricing doesn't include the SSL certificate. Netlify SSL with Let's Encrypt was literally a button press. Good stuff!

I used surge.sh for a while and I found they had significant downtime on several occasions. Hasn't happened to me so far with Netlify.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by guu »

jcsnv wrote: post #24

This is interesting, I just tested it out and its pretty flawless. For a standard React FE app, why use this vs Heroku vs S3?

Netlify provides a global cdn and administrative features targeting statically generated pages.

S3 is more generic in its goals so it doesn't provide either.

Heroku on the other hand can host server applications which Netlify cannot so it is really a different service. You could host an API on heroku and the react app on Netlify.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by prophesi »

I'm using their open-sourced Netlify-CMS for a static-site, and it's been wonderful. If you also have the site hosted by Netlify, they streamline the github push webhook for you that the CMS depends on, which is really nice when you're starting out.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by tal_berzniz »

gk1 wrote: post #72
tal_berzniz wrote: post #21

Awesome service so far. The Continuous Deployment flow is awesome with deploy previews, CDN, custom routing, Automatic SSL from Let's Encrypt. The SSL can be improved to be true automatic without a provisioning step (first hit issues a cert)

I mean... It takes just one click to get the SSL. That is already far easier than I've seen from any other service.

It can be easier. We've used https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl to provide SSL provisioning on the fly at my previous company for our customers` custom domains. This also means that there is no downtime at all when they change the DNS record from their old servers to the new one
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